The Summit is organized into three learning tracks, People, Money, and Place, with each track featuring two breakout sessions, combining insight and action. Sessions begin with research, emerging trends, and real world examples from national thought leaders and local practitioners, followed by facilitated working sessions designed to collectively identify practical strategies for actionable next steps.

A strong nonprofit workforce is essential to delivering lasting community impact, yet attracting, retaining, and developing talent remains one of the sector's greatest challenges. Organizations continue to face workforce shortages, burnout, and limited opportunities for professional growth, making it difficult to attract, retain, and develop the talent needed to meet growing community needs.

OPPORTUNITY: A more prepared, resilient nonprofit workforce is essential to meet the challenges facing Southern Nevada today and in the future. We can and must build a nonprofit sector where people can grow, advance, and lead -- through investment in people, their well-being, their growth pathways, and their potential as our future leaders.

National research from industry leaders like the Independent Sector, Nonprofit Finance Fund, and the Urban Institute, consistently identifies workforce, leadership, and organizational capacity as critical priorities for the sector.

As funding landscape shifts, so should our strategy. By building stronger partnerships with government and philanthropy, reimagining revenue models, and attracting sustainable and scalable investments, Southern Nevada's nonprofits can emerge stronger, more resilient, and more impactful than we've ever been.

OPPORTUNITY: Southern Nevada has an opportunity to strengthen its nonprofit sector by better understanding the changing landscape of public and private funding. By building stronger partnerships with government and philanthropy, diversifying revenue streams, and attracting the right investments to sustain and scale their work, nonprofits can increase their long-term resilience and community impact.

National research from the Nonprofit Finance Fund, and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy highlights these shifts and the growing need for long term financial sustainability.

Southern Nevada is home to more than 2.3 million residents across a vast and diverse region, and people's experiences and realities can vary dramatically from one neighborhood and zipcode to the next. Creating communities where all people can thrive requires a long-term, place-based approach that aligns nonprofits, government, philanthropy, businesses, and residents around a shared vision.

OPPORTUNITY: Southern Nevada's size and diversity demands that we organize around place, instead of just mission and interests -- an emerging approach here that has achieved impact in other communities. By shifting our framework to neighborhoods and zipcode, we can better mobilize our communities to build shared visions and act on them. Through community asset mapping, flexible, responsive programming, bold, committed partnerships -- and most of all, through working with local residents -- we can create lasting, sustainable transformation block by block.

Research from the leading industry partners like Brookings Institution, Urban Institute, and NationSwell demonstrates that place-based strategies can strengthen neighborhoods by coordinating investments, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and centering community voice.